The Medina Children’s Library was established to encourage literacy and a love of reading in the children of the Fez Medina community.

The library was started in January 2015 by a group of neighbors living in the Fez Medina. We wanted to offer the children in our community a place where they could discover books and develop a love of reading. This is the only children’s library in Fez.

In 2017 we had record attendance with 14,700 visits to the library, over 1,200 each month! There is a huge need here and it is thrilling to see the ongoing enthusiastic response from the kids.

With a specific focus on pre-readers and developing readers (up to the age of 14 years old), the library seeks to provide a welcoming place where children have easy access to age and culturally appropriate books and resources. Here they may browse and read books at the library, participate in Story Time where volunteers read aloud to a small group, as well as borrow books to take home to read and share with their families.